I get things like this in my inbox:
Diocese under attack at conference
Ongoing story in Albany. I don’t know all of the details, but here are some of my favorite highlights. My comments in bold.
Oakes, a 51-year-old Catholic with strong views against abortion, was one of the 250 people who attended a daylong conference in Latham sponsored by the Coalition of Concerned Catholics of the Albany Diocese.The group, which last year demanded Bishop Howard Hubbard’s resignation and says the diocese under his leadership has become too liberal in teaching human sexuality, also hosted two Midwestern activists who are working to force out Hubbard.
okay, if this bishop really has been hiding pedophiles, that’s
despicable…it’s the other stuff this organization talks about that irks me…keep reading.
“I just came to this for information. Have my eyes been opened. What you are
seeing here today is the purification of the Catholic Church.”
says some random guy attending the conference
Likoudis chided local media, saying it has not reported that the diocese
under Hubbard encourages androgyny, bisexuality, radical feminism and New Age spirituality.
GASP! NO! Not feminism! And New Age spirituality! Lord save us all…
In February, his battle escalated dramatically when he brought forth accusations from two men who say Hubbard engaged in homosexual behavior during the 1970s.“This isn’t an anti-homosexual agenda,” Aretakis said. “It’s about pedophilia and mutual blackmail between gay priests and a gay bishop, and the pedophiles who sneak in underneath the dark of night.”
blaaaaaaaaaaaargh! augh! “gay” does NOT equal “pedophile.” so what are we trying to say here…that the fact that this bishop is gay, if it is indeed true, is a motive for covering up sex abuse???? or that he covered because he was afraid of being outed?
Madigan attended St. Monica’s Church in Johnsonville, which was closed by the diocese in 2001. She said the diocese assigned several gay priests to the church and ignored complaints from parishioners. “You can appeal to the bishop on these issues and he does not intercede,” she said.
I’m saying my prayer to St. Jude daily that I find a teaching job soon…